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- From: khare@cco.caltech.edu (Rohit Khare)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Really stupid Question: NS486 (WHEN??) - Q2 '92
- Message-ID: <1ehe6rINN9ah@gap.caltech.edu>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 01:15:07 GMT
- References: <1992Nov18.185345.28016@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> <1992Nov19.191857.17128@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- >To my way of thinking, moving shipping into the spring makes no business
- >sense whatsoever, particularly if it is to write "hundreds of drivers."
- >Why not ship on a specific configuration of a Dell or Compaq or HP we KNOW
- >NS486 works on? Then NeXT can meet a January date and worry about making
- >the release more general, making it work with all the conceivable devices
- >out there, into the summer. REMEMBER THAT THE MICROSOFT HYPE MACHINE WILL
- >BE GOING FULL TILT BY THE SUMMERTIME RELEASE OF NT! NeXTstep 486 will be
- >lost in the noise, so being out there first is what's important.
-
- >-Marcos J. Polanco
-
- For you trivia watchers out there, the last line of an article on NS486 in
- this week's PCWeek (p 72, i think), it says that NeXT will NOT OEM NS486---
- There will be no Dell NeXTSTEP boxes from the factory. All sales will be
- through VAR's.. and this makes perfect sense, since NS486 sales will not
- be demand-driven... they need the extensive sale-support and demand creation
- only VARs can provide.. after all, one does not by NeXTSTEP piecemeal... only
- by selling to the entire company can it be successful. Finally, MIS types are
- already *very* skeptical of NT... they are NeXT's market, and they are much
- more likely to look at the situation objectively, as opposed to Byte and othe
- PC rags, for example.
-
- Rohit Khare
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